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Avengers vs. X-Men (Single Issues)
Avengers vs. X-Men #2
As the Phoenix draws nearer to Earth, the Avengers storm the beach of Utopia!
25 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 18, 2012
About the author
Jason Aaron
2,345 books1,702 followersJason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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December 18, 2025
Read as part of the Avengers vs. X-Men Omnibus.
The collective review for the entire Avengers vs. X-Men storyline can be found on my review of the Avengers vs. X-Men omnibus.
The collective review for the entire Avengers vs. X-Men storyline can be found on my review of the Avengers vs. X-Men omnibus.
April 22, 2020
War has officially started and “all hope is lost”. This is so bad!!! I don’t like them in war ugghh!!!
September 29, 2021
Pertempuran terjadi di pantai Utopia, pulau yang menjadi markas X-Men pimpinan Cyclops yang berusaha melindungi Hope Summers dari Avengers. Avengers di bawah pimpinan Kapten Amerika melawan X-Men di bawah pimpinan Cyclops. Tapi Hope punya pemikiran lain. Sementara itu, tim Avengers yang ditugaskan untuk mencegat Phoenix di luar angkasa menjadi saksi besarnya kekuatan kosmis Phoenix.
June 19, 2025
Cap and Scott are idiots. Scott needs to calm down and Cap shouldn't threaten force to take Hope away when things are already obviously sensitive. He should know better than that.
And yet another gaff by Romita Jr in his art giving Wolverine a strange look. Which is odd because every other page of his is great.
And yet another gaff by Romita Jr in his art giving Wolverine a strange look. Which is odd because every other page of his is great.
February 25, 2021
reseña en el último comic
*me esperaba una pelea más buena entre tony y magneto sobretodo
*me esperaba una pelea más buena entre tony y magneto sobretodo
May 1, 2022
Hope we get to see the Strange vs Magik fight!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 28, 2024
A good ending (even though quite rushed compared to some parts?)
November 6, 2024
The issue where the actual Avenger/X-Men fight goes in full force. It's ironically funny and does a great job pitting the characters who you'd most want to see in conflict. I appreciate each issue opening up with a page of who is involved in the comic and on which side of the conflict. With such a large cast, it almost feels necessary.
September 24, 2012
AvX RE-READ!
"All hell officially broken loose."
The battle is well on the way. Hero against hero. Friends against friends. This issue its largely filled with panels of fighting. Jason Aaron makes it more interesting by adding panels of a narrator, which also helps give it a 'classic Marvel' feel and also adds a little depth to the issue. At this point, it's still easy for readers to decide who they want to back. However, the same cannot be said when we get to later issues in the series.
John Romita Jr's art is better in this issue. His style is better suited to drawing action, rather than people stood around talking. It also does take a certain amount of skill to draw so many different characters in one comic, so the fact that he can do it without any major problems shouldn't be taken for granted, and should be seen as a plus.
"All hell officially broken loose."
The battle is well on the way. Hero against hero. Friends against friends. This issue its largely filled with panels of fighting. Jason Aaron makes it more interesting by adding panels of a narrator, which also helps give it a 'classic Marvel' feel and also adds a little depth to the issue. At this point, it's still easy for readers to decide who they want to back. However, the same cannot be said when we get to later issues in the series.
John Romita Jr's art is better in this issue. His style is better suited to drawing action, rather than people stood around talking. It also does take a certain amount of skill to draw so many different characters in one comic, so the fact that he can do it without any major problems shouldn't be taken for granted, and should be seen as a plus.
August 28, 2013
And here it is, the moment we are all waiting for. The big battle between mutants and superheroes. And it reaks of the same awful failure of most marvel events. Illustration is not improving either. The only cool thing about this issue is with colossus and magneto doing that combo against the airship carrier.
April 21, 2012
Some good match-ups, though none really last more than 1 or two panels as the writers are giving a bigger picture in this issue of just how big this clash is. As usual, not bad, fun nerd fodder, but nothing to rave about.
April 23, 2012
This is the action I wanted to see! Hulk v. Colossus, Magneto v. Iron-Man. Yes yes yes.
May 2, 2012
Well, more X-men showed up, which is promising. Still no Gambit or Rogue. *siiiiiiigh*
Looking forward to the next issue.
Looking forward to the next issue.
May 11, 2012
The writing this issue threw me off a bit. The art is still fantastic.
November 29, 2012
No se que fue mas emocionante, red hulk vs colossus, magneto vs ironman, o cyclops vs captain america.
December 10, 2016
Microscopic telepathic tasers.
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